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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy; Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John; … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
By exploiting establishment-level data for U.S. manufacturing, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533905
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Analytic Derivatives for Estimation of Linear Dynamic Models
Zadrozny, Peter A. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 1988
Friedlander, algorithms 1 and 2 can automatically handle any pattern of missing or linearly aggregated data. Although algorithm 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541196
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What Drives Racial Segregation? New Evidence Using Census Microdata
Bayer, Patrick; McMillan, Robert; Rueben, Kim - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002
light on the forces that drive observed segregation patterns. Making use of restricted micro-Census data from the San …. In contrast to the findings of the previous literature, which has been hampered by serious data limitations, our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058585
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Firms and Layoffs: The Impact of Unionization on Involuntary Job Loss
Tinsley, Vanessa V - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003
This paper focuses on the impact of unionization on involuntary job loss using establishment data from the 1997 … National Employer Survey (NES-II) and merging those data with contextual data at the industry level as well as with local labor … market data. The estimated logit models included information on unionization rates and employment security provisions present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058587
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Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example
Syverson, Chad - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001
This paper shows that imperfect output substitutability explains part of the observed persistent plant-level productivity dispersion. Specifically, as substitutability in a market increases, the market’s productivity distribution exhibits falling dispersion and higher central tendency. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058590
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How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate
Black, Sandra E; Lynch, Lisa M; Krivelyova, Anya - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003
Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058592
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The Relationship of Personal and Neighborhood Characteristics to Immigrant Fertility
Hill, Laura E; Johnson, Hans P - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002
We find that fertility varies by immigrant generation, with significant declines between the first and subsequent generations for groups with large immigrant population. However, we find that personal characteristics--such as educational attainment, marital status, and income levels--are much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058593
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The Impact of Welfare Waivers on Female Headship Decisions
Ribar, David C; Fitgerald, John M - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2003
reform waivers on those decisions while controlling for confounding local economic and social contextual conditions. We pool … influences. Based on data through 1995, we find limited evidence that workencouraging waivers had a beneficial effect by reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058594
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Differences in Job Growth and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing
Armington, Catherine; Acs, Zoltan - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2000
Employment flows in services have greatly exceeded those in manufacturing over the recent decade. We examine these differences and their variation over establishment sizes and types. We test three hypotheses which have been offered to explain these differences: (1) that the difference in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058595
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Output Market Segmentation and Productivity
Syverson, Chad - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2001
Recent empirical investigations have shown enormous plant-level productivity heterogeneity, even within narrowly defined industries. Most of the theoretical explanations for this have focused on factors that influence the production process, such as idiosyncratic technology shocks or input price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058597